[e2e] Is a non-TCP solution dead?

[David P. Reed]

Ah, most excellent Cannara - I'd be interested in some quantitative 
evidence for your assertion that the Internet runs almost exclusively on 
well-groomed Telco lines.  Almost all of the Internet traffic I experience 
runs over LANs on part of its journey, just as most of the Internet exists 
close to the edge.   I personally suspect that most end-to-end traffic will 
be carried via RF and optical photons in a few years, copper will be used 
exclusively for power distribution, and fiber will be viewed as an 
optimization relevant to the minority of communications that need never be 
mobile.